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Revision - Paper 2 Music and News - Section A: Music

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Section A: Music Revise the topic by reading through the music factsheet . Watch the music videos below. Read your copy of MOJO and look at this handout about Media Industry. Music Magazines Mojo Industry by Mrs Downie on Scribd You will be asked about:  Radio One Live Lounge MOJO Music Magazine Music Videos - Little Mix Black Magic and The Vamps Somebody to You Question One This short 1-mark question is about your knowledge of Media Industry relating to magazines, radio or music videos. Example question: Identify the regulator for radio in the UK. Revision tasks: Create a glossary of all of the audience or industry key terms. Memorise the regulators for magazines (IPSO or Impress) and radio (Ofcom). Learn the names of the owners of your set texts: Radio One (BBC, a public corporation set up by a Royal Charter) MOJO (Bauer Media) Question Two Explain one way in which music videos use media language to differ ...
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Revision - Television and Promoting Media

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Click on The Lego poster to prepare for the exam paper 1.
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The Lego Movie Revision

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Use the two information sheets to revise the key terms you missed in the recent mock exam and then attempt the mock paper questions again in your book. The Lego Movie The Lego Movie Video Game Use these blog posts to help you revise how to use the key terms in your exam by clicking here You can also revise using this post about audiences by clicking here Why are films regulated at all? The BBFC categorises all films using an age rating system. Read this below, which helps you consider why The Lego Movie is classified as a U. The Lego Movie Age Regulation by Mrs Downie on Scribd Look at the set products for the Lego Movie again. Posters   Trailer UK Ad break Trailer Be aware that these adverts that are featured in the Lego 'TV Advert break' trailer are all real adverts that were being broadcast at the time The Lego Movie was released. Here is an example. Audiences would see the humour in these parodies and would recognise the well...
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J200 01 Mark Scheme Dec 18 by Mrs Downie on Scribd
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The Lego Movie - Media Audiences

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Learning Objective: To understand how the media operates as a commercial industry on a global scale and reach both large and specialised audiences. The Lego Movie was an extremely successful production for Warner Brothers and Lin Films. The film was produced for $60,000,000 which it made back in its first weekend of release in the USA alone! Not bad for three days... Overall, it made a gross of over $311,000,000 according to BoxOfficeMojo. You will be expected to know the reasons for this success in the exam and therefore you should answer the following questions in as much detail as you can. TASK 1: Copy down the key terms and their definitions into your book. Keywords Intertextuality: the relationship between texts. Genre: a style or category of art, music, or literature. Convergence: The interlinking of computing and other information technologies, media content, media companies and communication networks. Conglomerate: a thing consisting of a number of different and dis...
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Music promotion (Music and News Exam Revision)

Use this booklet to help you revise the Music element of the Music and News exam. You can answer the questions in your book. Year 10 Music and News Section a Revision Booklet by Mrs Downie on Scribd
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Representing Historical Contexts

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Explain how broadsheet newspapers reflect the time and historical contexts in which they were published. There are a number of ways in which newspapers reflect their historical contexts, in the way these contexts influence their producers, their audiences and the world that they represent through their news stories. Britain in the 1960s was a more patriarchal society and this meant most journalists were men, that audiences expected patriarchal representations, and the mostly political news that featured on the front pages was about powerful political figures - nearly all men. Only one female politician - Mrs Castle - features in the three front pages below. Britain is becoming a multicultural society in the 1960s but still saw itself as white, and race relations as a 'problem'. What stories in these front pages reflect that tension in British society? The newspaper is trying to be liberal on 'race issues' but still presents a very white point of view. There is muc...
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